Edwin Cruz
Principal Software Engineer at MagmaLabs
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Cruz is a Principal Software Engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience building high-performance Ruby on Rails applications and scaling engineering teams in Mexico. He led the creation of two of the country's largest Rails teams and has grown MagmaLabs into a hub of open-source contributors and consultative engineering talent. Edwin blends hands-on backend work—contributing to the Solidus eCommerce core—with operational improvements such as cutting CI times and resolving N+1 performance issues to support thousands of requests per minute. He’s delivered impact across e-commerce, IoT integrations (AWS IoT Core + MQTT for scooter telemetry), and SEO-optimized nonprofit marketplaces that helped local businesses during the pandemic. A public speaker and open source evangelist, he routinely mentors teams on testing, CI/CD, and architecture while remaining actively involved in the Solidus stakeholder group. Based in Guadalajara, he’s focused on helping others succeed with Rails rather than seeking new roles.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ecommerce10
database9
database-design9
databases9
html8
css7
javascript7
storefront6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
solidusio/solidus
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 30 commits, 31 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Edwin contributed to the Solidus eCommerce framework by implementing features and fixing bugs related to order processing, currency management, and admin interface improvements. They focused on enhancing API functionality, ensuring correct data handling, and improving the user experience within the backend. These changes involved modifications to core models, controllers, and views, demonstrating a solid understanding of the framework's architecture and data flow. The user also improved the admin interface by dynamically rendering attachment definitions in the taxon form.
ecommercerailssolidusrubyshopping-cart
magma-labs/til
Feb 2021 - Jun 2024
Today I Learned Server Implementation
Contributions:33 reviews, 15 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 4 months
learnedjavatodayserver
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